Forgiveness Quotes
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Forgiveness quotes hold the power to change your life in many positive ways. Study them. You will discover forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. We give our power away...
... to any person we refuse to forgive. Holding resentment against another is toxic to you, not the person who hurt you. This is, of course, counterproductive. Consider forgiveness quotes a tool with the potential to heal old hurts. Practice living in a state of forgiveness. Your health and happiness depends on being free of grudges. If you need help forgiving, set up a coaching session with Marta@joyofquotes.com I wish you the peace and freedom that comes with forgiveness.
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Rhonda Britten Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner!
Max Lucado Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt Tweet this Quote!
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins Tweet this Quote!
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the hearts and cools the sting.
Peter Allen Tweet this Quote!
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
Bernard Baruch
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Confucius Tweet this Quote!
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against me.
Henry Ward Beecher
Be not afraid because you have faltered anywhere. For He has said, I forgive, even as you forgive others. Then how forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been forgiven. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love.
Edgar Cayce
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
Gerald Jampolsky Tweet this Quote!
Forgiveness means you do not hold others responsible for your experience.
Gary Zukav Tweet this Quote!
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
If you haven't forgiving yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta Tweet this Quote!
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher Tweet this Quote!
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Dan Zadra
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
Viktor Frankl
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson Tweet this Quote!
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi Tweet this Quote!
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius Tweet this Quote!
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton Tweet this Quote!
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope Tweet this Quote!
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Buddha Tweet this Quote!
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without forgiveness life is governed by…an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli Tweet this Quote!
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